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The fraud and counterfeiting of non-cash means of payment pose a serious threat to the EU’s security - they provide important income for organised crime and enable other criminal activities such as terrorism, drug trafficking and trafficking in human beings. In addition, non-cash payment fraud affects the trust of consumers
in the security of the digital single market, reduces economic online activity and causes important economic losses.

To equip Europe with the right tools to deal with cyber-attacks, the European Commission and the High Representative are proposing a wide-ranging set of measures to build strong cybersecurity in the EU. This includes a proposal for an EU Cybersecurity Agency to assist Member States in dealing with cyber-attacks, as well as a new European certification scheme that will ensure that products and services in the digital world are safe to use.

Free flow of non-personal data means unrestricted movement
of data across borders and IT systems in the EU. It is a key
building block of the Digital Single Market and considered
the most important factor for the data economy to unleash
its full potential and to double its value to 4% of GDP in
2020.

To unlock the full potential of the EU data economy, the Commission is proposing a new set of rules to govern the free flow of non-personal data in the EU. Together with the already existing rules for personal data, the new measures will enable the storage and processing of non-personal data across the Union to boost the competitiveness of European businesses and to modernise public services in an effective EU single market for data services. Removing data localisation restrictions is considered the most important factor for the data economy to double its value to 4% of GDP in 2020.

The study provides an overview and analysis of existing self-regulatory, co-regulatory and full regulatory measures and frameworks that apply to cloud services provided in the European Union (Study reference: SMART 2015/0018

The Quantum Flagship High-Level expert group published its final report, with concrete principles for the implementation of the Flagship: excellence, transparency, openness and connection with existing programmes.

The international team of the FET funded research project subCULTron is going to deploy the first autonomous robots in the historic waters of Venice. Journalists are invited to join the scientists, who will be conducting first experiments on September 15th, 2017.